Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell answers questions from reporters following the regular Federal Open Market Committee meetings at the Fed in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into cost overruns in the Federal Reserve’s renovation project, with particular focus on chairman Jerome Powell and his testimony to Congress last June. The question is whether he had perjured himself concerning what he knew and when.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]